Former Tulsa Priest On Track To Become Oklahoma's First Saint

A martyred priest from Tulsa will get one step closer to becoming the first American-born Saint on Saturday.

Father Stanley Rother's Beatification ceremony is Saturday, September 23rd in Oklahoma City and we expect a delegation from Guatemala and a representative of Pope Francis to be in attendance.

Father Stanley Rother, was a former associate pastor at Holy Family Cathedral in Tulsa. Rother became a missionary to Guatemala in 1968. In 1981, during a civil war, Father Rother was shot and killed by gunmen in a Guatemalan church's rectory.